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Acting Exercise: Act Like an Actor
Acting Exercise: Act Like an Actor
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Roleplays, Public Speaking, Body Language, Acting, Emotional Intelligence

This is a useful exercise in acting. Use this exercise to help people adopt certain roles or learn how to imitate target behaviours. Acting and understanding how an ideal role feels like can help delegates to get to those targets. For example, being able to act like a manager can significantly help people to eventually become a manager. Not only acting like a manager helps the person to see what it takes to be a manager, others will start to respond appropriately and will be more receptive when that person is elevated to the managerial level.

This exercise helps with various useful roles provided as mission cards. You can use the exercise as a template for other useful roles or choose based on the content of your course.

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Leadership Skills Exercise: Help Others to Increase Their Self-Esteem
Leadership Skills Exercise: Help Others to Increase Their Self-Esteem
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Communication Skills, Motivation, Personal Impact, Emotional Intelligence, Giving Feedback

A leader’s performance is defined by how he or she leads others. For others to follow a leader, it is critical for them to know that they are valued. The sense of significance and knowing that what they do has a benefit to the overall objective is a significant motivation. Hence, leaders must actively and routinely take steps to show that they value their team members and that team members’ effort are well appreciated.

This exercise helps delegates to learn how to achieve this as leaders. It encourages specific actions on their behalf as opposed to vague strategies, so that they know precisely what to do for each member of their team.

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Emotional Intelligence Exercise: How Admirable Are You?
Emotional Intelligence Exercise: How Admirable Are You?
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Motivation, Personal Impact, Emotional Intelligence

Self-awareness and self-motivation are critical competencies within emotional intelligence. Everyone must actively take steps to become better in these areas. A great way to achieve this is by systematically reviewing your own performance and thinking of what you are good at. This positive thinking can reinforce your confidence and boost your motivation. This simple, yet powerful exercise helps you to achieve this.

Remember, admiring yourself is not about being arrogant or feeding your ego. It is about knowing and appreciating what you are good at so you can inspire others around you and help them to grow as you grow further. This is particularly important in leadership roles.

You can provide this exercise during training or provide it as a pre or post-course assignment so delegates have more time to spend and reflect on their life and behaviour. If you run this as a pre-course assignment, you can ask them to bring their responses and then initiate a group discussion and encourage delegates to get inspired by each other.

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Communication Skills Exercise: Fold and Cut
Communication Skills Exercise: Fold and Cut
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills

The powerful exercise illustrates the importance of giving meaningful instructions to others and expecting feedback for correct execution of those instructions. The activity is fun to do but indirectly leads the delegates to make the target conclusion which makes it more effective and memorable.

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Problem Solving Exercise: Analogies
Problem Solving Exercise: Analogies
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving

In this exercises delegates learn to use analogies to find novel solutions to problems. Specific analogies are examined and mapped to a problem domain for inspiration of similar unique solutions.

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Problem Solving Exercise: Word Change
Problem Solving Exercise: Word Change
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Creativity, Problem Solving

This activity encourages solution generation by looking at the problem from a different prospective. By changing the way we describe a problem we can come up with ideas to fix it. This exercise works best with a group of delegates who normally work together or belong to the same organisation.

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Team Building Exercise: Annoying Colleagues
Team Building Exercise: Annoying Colleagues
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills

This is an eye opening exercise which works best with a group of delegates who normally work together or are about to work together as a team. The activity increases individual’s awareness about how their colleagues feel in difficult situations or under pressure.

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Peak Performance: Minimise Stress for Everyone
Peak Performance: Minimise Stress for Everyone
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Articles, Productivity, Stress Management

Deadlines are a fact of modern life and professionals in just about any role need to be able to efficiently deal with them. However, people deal with deadlines in different ways based on their personality. Deadlines can be stressful and the way people deal with this stress usually comes to define their success and subsequently the success of the team, especially when things go wrong. This article shows why everyone, team members or managers, must be aware of these differences and make decisions based on this knowledge.

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Team Building Exercise: The Punch Line
Team Building Exercise: The Punch Line
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Creativity, Exercises for Kids, Decision Making

This is a creative and energizing exercise which encourages thinking on the spot and also allows them to compete with each other. Delegate must complete a story based on a number of given punch lines in a competitive environment.

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Team Building Exercise: Open Day
Team Building Exercise: Open Day
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills

The aim of this fun activity is to encourage team work while demonstrating the importance of leadership, creativity and communication within a successful team.

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Decision Making Exercise: The Delphi Method
Decision Making Exercise: The Delphi Method
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Decision Making

This exercise can be used to demonstrate the Delphi method of decision making and forecasting to the delegates. It is an excellent technique to use in meetings where everyone has to voice their opinion and the group wants to make a decision based on the opinion of all the experts present. The method has a systematic feedback and encourages independent votes irrespective of other voter’s seniority or authority. The Delphi method was originally developed in the cold war to estimate the dangers of nuclear war.

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Communication Exercise: Communication Barriers
Communication Exercise: Communication Barriers
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Conflict Management, Exercises, Communication Skills

Avoiding communication barriers is a necessity in today’s business world. Not only it is critical to identify if these barriers exist, but also how to remove them or reduce their effect. This activity enables delegates to explore new solutions in overcoming communication and listening barriers.

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Open versus Closed Questions Exercise
Open versus Closed Questions Exercise
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Communication Skills

Asking the right type of questions to get the right kind of answers is a critical skill everyone must master. This is not always easy since you need to balance between wanting to get more specific details or getting any information you can. This powerful and entertaining exercise helps the delegates to understand the distinction between open and closed questions and practice their questioning skills.

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Management Exercise: Boss from Hell!
Management Exercise: Boss from Hell!
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises

This is a fun exercise to be used in team leading courses, project management courses or even communication skills training. This activity helps delegate to gain a better understanding of unhelpful traits in a leader and the reason behind theses unwanted behaviours.

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Building Effective Teams
Building Effective Teams
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Articles, Team Building

A team, according to Katz Enbach, is a small group of people with complementary skills, committed to a common purpose and a set of specific performance goals. As a team leader you are likely to inherit or build a new team at some point during your career. It is vital to your success to produce a team with individuals who share visions and interests, enjoy working with each other and have a winning attitude.

This article focuses on five main areas that should be considered by team leaders or project managers when managing a successful and productive team.

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